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I once was sitting with the test pilot of the F-14 Grumman "Tomcat" ("Anytime, baby") on his birthday during the Iranian hostage crisis. While watching the TV (Ishi, the last Californian Indian was on, which is another story, his wife is an anthropologist) came, "We interrupt this program to tell you if the USSR makes a move for the Iranian/Soviet border we will blow up all the F-14's on the ground. The air-to-air missile technology is considered to be extremely important, and would upset the balance of power." Well, in review, we sold 100 F-14 fighter-bombers (like Tom Cruise's in "Top Gun" a film which dramatically increased Holland's air force recruitment as his co-star looked remarkably like their princess it was stated) and over 4,000 Americans had been in Iran to train their pilots and support personnel. I watched the last two fly on Long Island "the cradle of flight" testing some property out there near the Calverton Navy Airbase, where as a youngster I had attended an airshow with the Grumman's LEM "kiddies" and where across the road from where Grumman used to have its company picnics, a national veterans cemetery is today, where my father is buried. Is this really necessary? An Israeli fighter pilot, who was one of the pilots that flew that tight formation through international airspace, and that looked like a commercial airliner on radar, to bomb the French built nuclear power plant in Iraq years ago, was aboard our Columbia shuttle craft, which fell to earth, when the orbiter disintegrated, his notebook partially survived and is being preserved. His life (and the others aboard the spacecraft "Columbia") was an example of international cooperation that transcends what is solved with the use of armed force. The test pilots wife also reported in our anthropology department about living in the then Shah's Iran, who I read was part of a system put there in part by U.S. General Schwartzkopf's father, in an American Expeditionary Force (later appointed in charge of the federal investigation of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial in New Jersey).